I Am a Cat Read-along

I am joining in Tanabata’s first Japanese literature read-along over the coming months. We will be reading the three volumes of I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume, one volume a month. This is a book that I’ve been wanting to read for the last couple of years and was intending to read it anyway [...]

The Other Green Shelf

I have previously shared my bottle-green Virago shelf but I had many other lighter green books on my shelves and I brought those together to create the other green shelf. First of all, there is NO Angela Carter book! I think this is the first shelf, other than the white one (and I do have [...]

"The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles"

As a prelude to my reading list for the Japanese Literature challenge I read the novella “The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles” by Kij Johnson, which can be read here (it is 64 pages). My appetite is now whetted for reading The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson as well as I am a Cat [...]

The Japanese Literature Challenge

With so many challenges on the go just now (this year’s Man Booker longlist; the Booker and Pulitzer prize winners; the upcoming Persephone Reading Week; Everything Austen) you would be forgiven for thinking me crazy for embarking on another. However, it just isn’t so! Before I was blogging myself I was reading blogs and last [...]

Some Prefer Nettles

I have been intrigued by Japan of late; some friends have or are planning to go travelling there and it has heightened my desire to one day visit. I love the food, the culture, the cinema. A few books I have read recently have had Japanese elements to them as well as reading some Haruki [...]

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